[MITgcm-devel] netcdf

[Martin Losch]

Ed,
whenever I forget to delete the netcdf files that I wrote in a previous 
run, I get something like this (with ifort)
>  NetCDF ERROR: String match to name in use
> NetCDF ERROR: String match to name in use
> forrtl: severe (66): output statement overflows record, unit -5, file 
> Internal Formatted Write
> Image              PC        Routine            Line        Source
> mitgcmuv           081F97B0  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           081F92A8  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           081CC705  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           0819608C  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           0819652F  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           081B7551  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           080A020F  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           0809B909  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           0809B48E  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> mitgcmuv           08090552  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
>
> Stack trace terminated abnormally.

By now, I know what it means, but for the "uninitiated" user this may 
be a little bit confusing, don't you think?
Possibly, I haven't found the switch that let's me overwrite old netcdf 
files (if I don't want to have new directories for every run), but I 
would think that  either the netcdf files are overwritten by default 
(as the *.data *.meta files), or there should be a more intuitive error 
message. What do you think?

Martin